1,290 on incapacity benefits told they are able to work
HUNDREDS of people in Derby on incapacity benefits have been found capable of some form of work following a reassessment.
Since 2010, a total of 2,740 city people on the benefits have so far been reassessed by the Department for Work and Pensions.
It found 1,290 were capable of some form of work, which is 47%.
The department said they would now get long-term help from Jobcentre Plus and the Work Programme to find a job.
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The remainder are eligible for Employment and Support Allowance, with 24% put in a support group as they are too ill or disabled to work.
A further 29% have been put in a work-related activity group, meaning they are now too ill or disabled to work and entitled to benefits – but will be expected to take steps towards an eventual return to work when they are able.
The department is now more than halfway through the reassessment of 1.5 million incapacity benefits claimants through the Work Capability Assessment.
Mark Hoban, Minister for Employment, said: "Now we are over halfway through the process, it is clear the old system condemned tens of thousands of people to a life on benefits with little help to move back to work."
2 Comments
by Derby_born
Friday, February 01 2013, 10:39PM
“I agree with jockyb. The following is a report from the Telegraph (national daily) which is often described as a Tory paper:
"Stephen Hill was sent to his first Work Capability Assessment in 2010 when he gave up his job as a sandwich delivery man after being referred for tests on his heart.His wife Denise, who was with him at the assessment, said: "She checked him out. She did his blood pressure and his heart and said to see a doctor as soon as possible."Despite the assessor telling Mr Hill to seek urgent medical advice, he was still found fit for work. In the meantime doctors had diagnosed him with heart failure.He won his appeal but he was ordered to attend another assessment."He got a letter for another medical and I couldn't believe it," said Mrs Hill. "He'd got to go for a medical when he was waiting for a heart operation."But he was again declared fit for work, with the assessor declaring: "Significant disability due to cardiovascular problems seems unlikely."Mr Hill died of a heart attack five weeks later".
http://tinyurl.com/bohr5vu”
by jockyb
Wednesday, January 30 2013, 4:59PM
“The assessment (and I use the word loosely) is designed to fail. They take no account of any doctor's reports in to the medical condition some of the people have. My partner failed her assessment in October 2011. She was advised to appeal against the decision, and this included having a comprehensive report from her own doctor. First time she sent this confidential information in to the appeals panel, they upheld the original decision, without referring to her own doctors report as they had conveniently "lost" the report. A second appeal to a tribunal overrode the original decision, adding that my partner had been "Hopelessly" under assessed at the original assessment. It honestly seems to me that these assessments were brought in partly to deny, genuine claimants, their right to claim incapacity benefits, and partly to create work for ATOS. (the company hopelessly under-assessing even more people)”